Chad Fowler <chad / chadfowler.com> writes:
> If not for this feature, I might not have ended up staying with Ruby when
> I started learning it several years ago. It's a unifying part of the
> whole dynamic feeling and philosophy of the language. Ruby without this
> feature would cease to be Ruby to me.
I agree completely on this topic. I just can't express how big a
selling point this feature was to me. It has made writing unit tests
a *dream* I can override functions in modules like PAM so that they
can run in automated tests.
-- Samuel